Argentine lawyer Alberto Nisman 'may have been forced to kill himself'

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Argentine lawyer Alberto Nisman 'may have been forced to kill himself'

The mysterious death of the man who investigated Argentina’s worst terrorist attack could been induced suicide, says former prosecutor

Associated Press
Thursday 19 May 2016 22.26 EDT

Alberto Nisman, who investigated Argentina’s worst terrorist attack before he was found dead in his home last year, may have been forced to kill himself, a prosecutor who was formerly in charge of his case has said.

Viviana Fein, who in December was removed from the investigation into Nisman’s mysterious death, had said before that it was likely suicide. But in an interview with local radio station La Red, she acknowledged for the first time that it was possible he was “induced” to kill himself.

Fein said that Nisman had several back-and-forth calls with “six or seven people”, including the country’s former spy chief, Antonio Stiuso, and then-army chief Cesar Milani on 18 January 2015. The body of Nisman, who led the probe of the 1994 AMIA Jewish center bombing in Buenos Aires that killed 85 people, was discovered on that day in his apartment with a gunshot wound to the head.

“I find it suggestive and noteworthy that personalities of this calibre were on the same day of his death talking uninterruptedly,” Fein said.

Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/may/20/argentine-lawyer-alberto-nisman-was-forced-to-kill-himself

[Feeling the Bern]

1. What? In South America? That never happens (Salvador Allende)

[forest444]

3. Except that he was no Salvador Allende.

Nisman was a paid Mossad puppet entrusted with one task: to cover up the 1994 AMIA bombing. The only forensic study ever performed at the time of the incident indicated that the bomb was inside the building (the report was buried by the neocon Menem administration).

The three AMIA victims' rights groups, for their part, had been demanding his removal for years for malfeasance. The coup de grace came when the director of Interpol himself, Ronald Noble, called Nisman out for flat-out lying when Nisman claimed that Argentina had requested that Red Notices against several Iranian officials be lifted (the very foundation of his claims).

Had he lived for even one more week, he would have appeared in Congress and would have been publicly discredited by congressional cross-examination. By dying, he became extremely useful to those trying to sabotage Obama's Iran talks (which had just begun at the time).

If he committed suicide, he prevented what would have been a complete humiliation (and, of course, very uncomfortable questions as to why he was sitting on the case and pursuing distractions and vendettas); if he was murdered, someone accomplished this him.

And who benefited by avoiding a Nisman humiliation? As the Romans said, cui bono.

[Judi Lynn]

6. Absolutely. He was too vain to meet the consequences as the world watched. n/t

[villager]

2. "We haven't quite decided yet whether he committed suicide or died trying to escape." nt

[MisterP]

4. Rodrigo Rosenberg 2.0?

[Judi Lynn]

5. He almost pulled it off, too. So many clueless wingers exploding over it, ready to take down Colom.

To refresh people's memories, please see this link for the horrendous account:

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/jan/13/guatemala-murder-rodrigo-rosenberg

[WhiteTara]

7. That's a plot for a Hollywood movie.

[Judi Lynn]

8. You're right! Completely incomprehensible by normal standards. It's mindboggling. n/t

[WhiteTara]

9. The whole world seems crazy!

[bemildred]

10. +1. If you aren't paranoid, you aren't paying attention. nt